Toyota Technological Institute

The Toyota Technological Institute (豊田工業大学, Toyota Kōgyō Daigaku) (commonly referred to as TTI) is a university located in Nagoya, Japan. Founded in 1981 by a large endowment from Toyota Motor Corporation, it originally only accepted students with some industrial work experience.

Toyota Technological Institute
豊田工業大学
Toyota Technological Institute (2016.04)
Motto研究と創造に心を致し、常に時流に先んずべし
Motto in English
Respect the spirit of research and creativity, and always strive to stay ahead of the times.
TypePrivate
Established1981 (1981)
Academic staff
35 (+ part time 48)[1]
Students454[2]
Undergraduates352[2]
Postgraduates101[2]
Location,
35.1065°N 136.9830°E / 35.1065; 136.9830
CampusUrban
WebsiteToyota Technological Institute

TTI has a School of Engineering, a Master's Program, and a Doctoral Program. The programs consist of three areas of coursework: Mechanical Systems Engineering, Electronics & Information Science, and Materials Science & Engineering.[3]

In 2003 Toyota also opened the Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago, jointly with the University of Chicago. This campus is mainly for Ph.D students, studying Machine Learning, Algorithms & Complexity, Computer Vision, Speech Technologies and Computational Biology.[4]

TSU ranked TTI as the 5th best Japanese university in 2010 and 4th in 2011.[5][6] In this ranking, TTI has a best employment rate among all Japanese Universities.

In 2012, TTI was ranked 1st in Asia in terms of average number of publication per faculty by the QS World University Rankings.[7]

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